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    <h1>Forget</h1>

    <p>The Forget task will execute a set of tasks sequentially as a background
       thread.  Once the thread is started, control is returned to the calling
       target.  This is useful in being able to kick off a background server process,
       such as a webserver.  This allows you to not have to use the <code>parallel</code>
       task to start server processes.</p>

    <h2>Parameters</h2>
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        <th>Attribute</th>
        <th>Description</th>
        <th>Required</th>
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        <td valign="top">daemon</td>
        <td valign="top">Should the created thread be a daemon thread.  That is,
            should the ANT program be allowed to exit if the thread is still
            running.</td>
        <td align="center" valign="top">No.  Defaults to true.</td>
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    <h2>Example</h2>


    The following code

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    &lt;forget&gt;
        &lt;exec executeable="${env.CATALINA_HOME}/bin/catalina.bat}"&gt;
            &lt;arg line="start -security" /&gt;
        &lt;/exec&gt;
    &lt;/forget&gt;

    &lt;waitfor maxwait="1" maxwaitunit="minute"
                checkevery="100" checkeveryunit="millisecond"&gt;
        &lt;http url="http://localhost:8080" /&gt;
    &lt;/waitfor&gt;

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    Would start the Tomcat webserver as a background process, then waiting
    for the server to become available.

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